Dayseeker return with new single and video, Pale Moonlight

The next chapter of Dayseeker starts here: the band have just released a brand-new single, Pale Moonlight.

Having finished recording their sixth studio album only last month, the Orange County metalcore stars have now unveiled the first taste of what they’ve been busy working on.

Pale Moonlight was produced by Daniel Braunstein (Spiritbox, Silent Planet) and mixed by Zakk Cervini (blink-182, Lorna Shore), and is about “giving into your vices” according to frontman Rory Rodriguez.

“It’s about the addiction to things that you know are toxic for you,” he explains, “but you simply can’t stop yourself.”

Watch the video below:

Speaking to Kerrang! late last year, Rory teased that Dayseeker’s new album would put “our other music to shame”, and hinted that, “Maybe there’s a happy song on there… but it’s pretty dark so far.”

He also reflected on their growth in sound over the years, and the different fan reactions to it. “I’ve been on the other side, when a band puts out an album that I didn’t love, but I’ve never felt the motivation to go to their social media and let them know I didn’t like their album,” he revealed. “When we put out [2019 album] Sleeptalk, it felt like our old fans thought we’d cracked the code on our band and new fans couldn’t believe they hadn’t heard us before.

“When we put our Dark Sun, I didn’t think it was that crazy of a genre jump, but there were people who said it was too slow and wasn’t Sleeptalk, holding on to that record like it’s the Holy Grail. It felt personal to me to have people saying it sucked on the day it came out, halfway through listening to it. It took me a second to snap out of it.”

Dayseeker play Download Festival in June – get your tickets here.

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